Through nearly three days of speeches by world leaders at this year’s United Nations General Assembly, many issues have been addressed, but aside from climate change, one pressing matter seems to have been universally condemned: Russia’s war in Ukraine. As more than 80 world leaders have spoken to the assembly through Thursday afternoon at U.N. […]
Alex Murdaugh said Thursday in a court document that he only learned of alleged jury tampering in his double-murder trial after he was sentenced to two life terms in prison for shooting his wife and son. ‘I did not have any knowledge or information that the Colleton County Clerk of Court, Rebecca Hill, or anyone […]
PHOENIX – Former Arizona gubernatorial candidate and conservative firebrand Kari Lake has been hitting the pavement more and more in recent weeks as a top surrogate for former President Donald Trump’s presidential campaign and as a booster of Republican candidates across the country ahead of her own likely run for U.S. Senate. According to two […]
House Republicans for the second week in a row failed to move forward on any legislation related to funding the government, stunning many in their ranks as a government shutdown looms next week. The status of negotiations on both a short-term funding solution and long-term appropriations legislation declined so severely Thursday that lawmakers began to […]
When Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky last visited Washington, it was a top-secret journey and his first trip outside his country since Russia invaded Ukraine. He received a hero’s welcome at the White House and on Capitol Hill that day in December, evoking comparisons to British Prime Minister Winston Churchill’s wartime visit to Washington in 1941. […]
DES MOINES — During the summer a canvasser for Ron DeSantis knocked on the parsonage of St. Olaf Lutheran Church in Bode, Iowa — population roughly 300 — and asked the pastor what she thought of the Republicans running for president. The pastor said she liked DeSantis. Soon she was recruited. The Florida governor showed […]
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) reached the point of diminishing returns some time ago. One can only repeat fringe rhetoric so many times before it loses its shock value, before it just becomes the sort of thing you’re expected to say. So when she argued on Sept. 11 — Patriot Day, as some have it […]
Senate Majority Whip Richard J. Durbin (D-Ill.) broke with his party to express concerns over a decision to stop enforcing the dress code for members, urging the Senate to act to maintain “standards” on the Senate floor. “Well, I’m concerned about it,” Durbin, the No. 2 Senate Democrat, told journalist Steve Scully in an interview […]
ATLANTA — As a Justice Department lawyer after the 2020 election, Jeffrey Clark drafted and advocated for sending a letter to top Georgia officials declaring that the agency had reason to doubt the legitimacy of the state’s election after former president Donald Trump urged him to investigate allegations of fraud in the state, Clark’s lawyer […]
The Senate voted Thursday to make Gen. Randy A. George the next Army chief of staff and Gen. Eric M. Smith the next commandant of the Marine Corps, confirming two more senior military officers whose promotions had been stalled by Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.) amid a prolonged dispute over a Pentagon abortion policy. With the […]